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title: Nahum 3:2 (JPS 1917) — Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots; Who acts: you, rattling, wheels. Nahum 3:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nahum 3:2 · JPS 1917

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Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;

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**Who acts:** you, rattling, wheels · **What happens:** hark, prance, rattle · **To what, where:** whip, rattling, horses

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This is Nahum 3:2 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rattling, wheels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:NAM:35
# text = Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;
1	Hark	Hark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hark	hark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rattling	rattling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	prancing	prance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
17	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bounding	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chariots	chariot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hark** | imperative | you *not said here* | the whip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hark** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the rattling of the wheels and bounding chariots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prance** | gerund | the rattling of the wheels and bounding chariots *not said here* | horses |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Agent |
| 4 | **rattle** |  | the wheels |  |  |  |  |  | nom rattling «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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ק֣וֹל שׁ֔וֹט וְק֖וֹל רַ֣עַשׁ אוֹפָ֑ן וְס֣וּס דֹּהֵ֔ר וּמֶרְכָּבָ֖ה מְרַקֵּדָֽה׃

[Nahum 3:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NAM:35` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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